The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-07
FLORIDA.

was spiked back in position.
FLORIDA.
Mr.. Harvey of Wilcox, had a valuable
horse killed by the cars Friday.
Palatka has at last a street railroad. The
grading and track making commenced on
Oct 81
The South Florida railroad now gets
weather reports every morning and posts
copies in the post offices and at It's depots
1t is said that all the furniture for the San
Juan de Ulloa Hotel at Orlando has been
purchased and will reach here by Dec. l.
While digging on newly cleared piece of
land near Oakland recently. Mr.. Winkel-
man found large number of Indian beads.
j. S. Capen, of Winter Park, has had
over hbrty applications in the past three
weeks for cottages during the next season.
At their meeting at Enterprise this week
the Volusia County Commissioners appro-
priated 81, 900 for use of the County Board
of Health
The County Judges Office at Orlando is
kept busy making out and forwarding to
Lake and Osceola counties transcripts of
lprobate records.
The son of our postmaster, II. r. Shine,
of Cedar Keys, was run over by horse on
last Thursday, and several ribs were broken
besides other injuries.
The groves around Hampton and Waldo
are surprising themselves this year in every
way, which makes the industrious farmers
of that section feel good.
About 5000 pounds of fire blue fish ar
rived at Cedar Keys on Tuesday per sharpe
Bonito. They were shipped mostly to the
New York market via Savannah.
1t is considered about Crown Point that
seventy-fve boxes Of vegetables te the acre
is fair yield but 100 is not uncommon,
and in rare cases $50 TO 200 boxes.
At Mariana Thursday, the prominent
members of the Farmers State Alliance
met and perfected the plan of their paper. 1t
will be improved and many valuable ad-
ditions will be made
The Citizens National Bank of Orlando,
has started out under very favorable cir
cumstances. Notwithstanding the dull
times its business is first-rate, and far be-
yond its most sanguine expectations.
On account of the sudden spell of cold
weather the Oakland public school was
suspended Monday, there being no way of
heating the room. Mr. Wise is putting in
fiues and stoves, so that this will be obviated
in the future.
II. Stephens who had Ranlet's Cafe at
Orlando leased for the summer, and was re-
ported as having skipped the town, is now
in jacksonville working hard to pay off
whatever little claims there may be against
him.
Oakland has voted in favor of incorpora-
ton. The first municipal officers are:
Mayor, P. A. Demens; Aldermen G. d.
Ackerly A J. Grant, J. F. Bedfard, Henry
Kaufman, A NJ. Taylor; City Clerk, w.
P. Gilkeson Marshal, F. f. Eastman.
Hon. Emory P. Beauchamp, who pur-
chased property near Orange City last week
to the amount of $4,000 is from Indiana,
and was under the Hayes administration a
Consul to Germany. He has friends who
contemplate coming South this winter, and
will, no doubt, become interested in the
Orange City section.
The well sunk by the Welxiva Shingle
Company, near Glen Ethel, illustrates the
fine possibilities for irrigation that exist in
almost every section of Florida. A 2-inch
; pipe was suak 70 feet, and "A flow of gal
lon per second secured, or from so to 60 gal
! Ions per minute. The water has very
, slight taste of sulphur.
The dredge Herndon, Capt Madison
finished up its work in the harbor at Cedar
Key last Saturday The net result is a
: channel across the Middle Ground 200 feet
! long, 20 feet wide on the bottom and 101s
, | feet deep at mean low water. These meas
| urements have been verified by Capt. E. j.
Corrigan of the local pilot service.
w. 2. Vining, living within two miles OF
Oakland, brought into town the other day
!
large crop of them, and those brought here
realized So per bushel, at which rate he has
| an offer to dispose of the entire yield as they
, become fit for market. These were planted
about the beginning of September, and are
therefore, an earlier crop than those realized
! from the usual time of planting, three oil
] four weeks later
The Lake Butler region is reported to be
; in most fiourishing condition. New build
[ ings are going up in all directions and the
I saw mills in the vicinity are taxed to Their
utmost to supply the lumber necessary t.
erect the buildings p. b. Jaudon has Just
completed handsome house and barn, and
the entire settlement shows great thrift ano
e enterprise. Joseph Blanc, on Irving Jau
: don's place, has just sold forty acres of tim
r Der to the Griffin mill, to be immediately
3 worked up into dressed lumber to be usec
D in building the depot at Waco. near Jau
: don's place, and substantial improvements
Perry Duncan, a colored man, died a
Grown Point on Oct. II, and in what was
deemed a somewhat mysterious manner. HI
4 was perfectly well up TO Saturday night
:. and the next day, after taking a dose o.
: medicine for slight indisposition, died il
g fifteen minutes A jury was summoned OF
5 Tuesday morning. an inquest held, and
g verdict rendered of death of heart disease.
< Some of the people near by, not satisfied
} | with this rendering of the case, held meet
y strength of some new evidence. The ole
Jury was re-summoned, and witnesses re
- examined 1t took an entire day to arriv,
! at verdict, which has not yet been mad
Q public,
: A careful estimate of the number oil
orange and lemon groves, and the spac,
q they occupy at and Near Crown Point re
1 veals some interesting facts Commencing
/ at the old grove of Capt. Sims and extend
d ing thence to the Washburn grove is a single
@ enclosing fence five miles long the middle
S or dividing fences having mostly rotteC
: down. Within this area are $50 acres o.
g bearing orange groves, comprising tree
from II TO Is years old down TO those just
f set out The number of acres, under th,
q same fence, TO be planted with vegetables
!. such as cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes
: egg-plants, etc, is $50 acres along with s.
& acres more outside of said fence, and MOI
/ over a mile from the station-making 33t
i acres for one section alone, with more dis
: trictS TO hear from"
= SOUTH CAROLINA.
Darlington county is out of debt and hai
, 81, 900 in her treasury
i A Washington architect is drawing th,
r plans for new depot at Lancaster